Just noticed that since they announced their crypto coin thing, I’ve exchanged less than a dozen messages on Signal. Maybe it’s just me but suddenly it’s a ghost town.
@mhoye it’s pretty much them screaming YOU CAN’T TRUST US ANYMORE so I’m not really surprised. Altho I’ve always been wary of the phone number as identifier business too.
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@servingworlds @gnomon @mhoye I don’t really trust anything, I guess. I feel like people should take care with their expectations of online privacy.
@dfraser @servingworlds @mhoye seconded.
I do not believe I can trust mobile devices: between the opaque development practices of "open source" Android, the outright hostility of iOS to inspection by developers, and the enormity and quality of baseband radio firmware, it is frankly always a better idea to install no app than just trying to pick the least untrustworthy one.
"What do you trust more than Signal?" presupposes that I must trust _something_. I mustn't.